Currently Reading: Muay Thai

I say “3 World Champions” in the title of this post, for brevity. In truth it is one standing World Champion (Tanonchanok), one person I believe would be World Champion if she were not Tanonchanok’s townmate/friend...

This above is a little video help to Benjamin who wrote me about a basic problem he was having in sparring. It seemed like the best way to answer him was in a quick video. I...

I write a lot about how having a female body and female identity in a male-dominated sport and alien culture places limits on my possibilities as a fighter.  There are also ways in which my anatomical...

Being treated equally isn’t always what it seems.  I’ll just come right out and say that I balk when I hear women claim they are treated completely the same as men are at their gyms in...

Robert Cohen is a photographer from New York.  He’s working on a project of portraits of child Muay Thai fighters and he came by Phetchrungruang and O. Meekhun in Pattaya to get some images of the...

full fight video: Phetjee Jaa vs Nong Praew in Surin (above) Twenty minutes before Phetjee Jaa turned 13 years old, we were sitting together on a mat against the aluminum fence separating the schoolyard field from...

There has been some vague criticism toward me regarding the age of the Thai opponents I’ve been fighting. I have attempted to elevate the criticisms to a point of discussion by addressing the various facts about...

Kevin put together the nice graphic above for me, the below timeline was co-authored by Kevin and myself I’ve been reading through Peter Vail’s November 2014 article:  Muay Thai: Inventing Tradition for a National Symbol.PDF and...

Guest Post by Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu There is a very touching piece written by Lindsey Newhall for Fightland: Life of a Pad-Man: A Muay Thai Trainer’s Remorse. The pinnacle of the story is where Dam, a...

The results are in for the Awakening Female Muay Thai Community Voted Awards and it is pretty awesome to have won the 2014 “Journalist of the Year”. For those who don’t know me or are maybe...